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My favorite 'thought leader': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing

by davidw 9y ago

booleandilemma 9y ago
It seems that his only credentials are his hair.
HillaryBriss 9y ago
i'm sold solely because he calls himself a 'digital prophet.' also, he makes more money than me.
uiri 9y ago
The article says that he was born in 1970 but has nothing on his career before 1999. Maybe an Australian can chime in on the quality of the Billy Blue College of Design, but stints at unknown "digital media" companies and then at AOL (long after the dot-com boom) doing marketing doesn't seem like a particularly successful career. I'm kind of surprised that he meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
FuckOffNeemo 9y ago
I've never heard of him. Or Billy Blue design. Or anything to do with him and I'd expect I'd recognise his hair. Either this is a meme I'm not familiar with or we're being trolled. Perhaps both. Source: I'm Australian.
- semperdark 9y ago
  It's essentially a meme now. Either he conned AOL into giving him a sort of chief innovator job, or AOL was in on trying to market him as their very own Steve Jobs. He got onto a bunch of news programs a few years ago where they fawned about how much of an honor it was to have him on. http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/the-digital-prophet-predicts-our-future-141561923586 http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/the-digital-prophet-pre...
ilamont 9y ago
Valleywag was all over this guy: Shingy's Book of Nonsense Prophecies Shingy Just Spent 20 Minutes Yelling Insane Gibberish on a Stage SXSW In One Photo: Shingy on a Wrecking Ball http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/shingy http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/shingy
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scottdevries 9y ago
I've enjoyed this Thought Leader episode from CBC Canada's "This is That" show: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/thought-leader-gives-talk-about-thought-leadership-that-will-inspire-your-thoughts-1.3615385 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/thought-leader-gives-talk...
m-i-l 9y ago
David Shing reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley . The main difference is that one is a character in a comedy.

My favorite 'thought leader': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing

by davidw 9y ago

My favorite 'thought leader': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shing

booleandilemma 9y ago

It seems that his only credentials are his hair.

HillaryBriss 9y ago

i'm sold solely because he calls himself a 'digital prophet.' also, he makes more money than me.

uiri 9y ago

The article says that he was born in 1970 but has nothing on his career before 1999. Maybe an Australian can chime in on the quality of the Billy Blue College of Design, but stints at unknown "digital media" companies and then at AOL (long after the dot-com boom) doing marketing doesn't seem like a particularly successful career. I'm kind of surprised that he meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.

FuckOffNeemo 9y ago

I've never heard of him. Or Billy Blue design. Or anything to do with him and I'd expect I'd recognise his hair. Either this is a meme I'm not familiar with or we're being trolled. Perhaps both. Source: I'm Australian.

semperdark 9y ago
It's essentially a meme now. Either he conned AOL into giving him a sort of chief innovator job, or AOL was in on trying to market him as their very own Steve Jobs. He got onto a bunch of news programs a few years ago where they fawned about how much of an honor it was to have him on. http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/the-digital-prophet-predicts-our-future-141561923586 http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/the-digital-prophet-pre...

ilamont 9y ago

Valleywag was all over this guy: Shingy's Book of Nonsense Prophecies Shingy Just Spent 20 Minutes Yelling Insane Gibberish on a Stage SXSW In One Photo: Shingy on a Wrecking Ball http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/shingy http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/shingy

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scottdevries 9y ago

I've enjoyed this Thought Leader episode from CBC Canada's "This is That" show: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/thought-leader-gives-talk-about-thought-leadership-that-will-inspire-your-thoughts-1.3615385 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/thought-leader-gives-talk...

m-i-l 9y ago

David Shing reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Barley . The main difference is that one is a character in a comedy.